داستان سرا

Stories in Urdu · from 19 October 2026

The storyteller’s house.

Painted historical drama and on-camera explainers in Urdu, for Pakistan and the Urdu-speaking world.

Two channels · one house

The imperial map workshop at night: a great map of five rivers on a low table, lit by oil lamps and moonlight

The epic · Season one · Lahore, 1586

Dastan-e-Sarhad

داستانِ سرحد

The night the imperial map of the five rivers is finished, it vanishes, and the thief leaves behind the seal of a man who has sat in prison for years. To free his father and clear his name, a young mapmaker has to read the land the way the map did.

For teens and adults · painted with AI tools, labelled on every episode

Watch on YouTube · @DastanSara
The full Moon rising over old city rooftops at dusk, a brass telescope on a parapet and kites in the sky

From the house · explainers on camera

Taana Baana

تانا بانا

How the world really works, explained on camera in Urdu: science and engineering one week, history the next.

New episodes every week from 19 October

Watch on YouTube · @TaanaBaana

The house

A small studio telling big stories in Urdu.

Dastan Sara makes two channels for Pakistani and Urdu-speaking viewers around the world. Every history claim is checked before it is told. AI is a brush here, never a byline: the painted epic says so on every episode.

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